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“They have to be constantly watched,”
said the employers’newspaper,
Textile World, “or they will go from bad to worse inorder to make more time for play”
INDUSTRIALDOMESTICATION
Industry as the Orgins of Modern Domination
First appeared in English in the American primitivist newspaper Fifth Estate.
published by Quiver Distro - quiver@anti-politics.net
This essay can be downloaded as a PDF or text file from [
www.anti-politics.net
].
Leopold Roc
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underway. Today the grandeur, as well as the limit of the movements of the past - which inevitably determine social conditions in each region of this world - have become fully clear.
Industrial Domestication:
Industry As Te Origins Of Modern Domination
“If science was put to the service of capital, the recalcitrant worker’s docilitywould be assured”.
Andrew Ure, Philosophie des Manufactures, 1835
“In the past, if anyone called a tradesman a worker, he risked a brawl. Today,when they are told that workers are what is best in the state, they all insist onbeing workers”
M. Mav. 1948
The term industrial revolution, commonly used to describe theperiod between 1750 and 1850, is a pure bourgeois lie, symmetrical tothe lie about the political revolution. It does not include the negative andflows from a vision of history as uniquely the history of technologicalprogress. Here the enemy deals a double blow, legitimizing the existenceof managers and hierarchy as unavoidable technical necessities, andimposing a mechanical conception of progress, which is considered apositive and socially neutral law. It is the religious moment of materialismand the idealism of matter. Such a lie was obviously destined for thepoor, among whom it was to inflict long lasting destruction.To refute it, it is sufficient to stick to the facts. Most of thetechnological innovations that allowed factories to develop hadpreviously been discovered but remained unused. Their widespreadapplication was not a mechanical consequence, but stemmed froma historically timed choice which was made by the dominant classes.And this choice was not so much a response to a concern about purelytechnical efficiency (which was often doubtful) as it was a strategyof social domestication. The pseudo-industrial revolution can thus bereduced to a project of social counter revolution. There is only one typeof progress: the progress of alienation.Under the previously existing system, the poor still enjoyed aconsiderable amount of independence in the work they were obligatedto perform. Its dominant form was the domestic workshop: capitalistsrented tools to the workers, provided them with raw materials, and then
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